effects of maternal illness on fetus
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- Many women experience symptoms of mental illness during pregnancy. Animals stressed during gestation have smaller offspring. In humans, maternal depression is associated with low birthweight, preterm delivery and other adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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Pregnancy and Fifth Disease Rarely, a baby will develop severe anemia caused by its mother’s infection with fifth disease, and the woman may have a miscarriage. But this is not common. It happens less than 5% of the time among all pregnant women with parvovirus B19 infection, and it happens more commonly during the first half of pregnancy.
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- Key Points. 1  During prenatal development, environmental factors can significantly affect the development of the child. 2  Most everything the mother ingests, including food, liquid, and even medication, travels through the placenta to the fetus; anything the mother is exposed to in the environment affects the fetus.
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Risk Factors for Preterm Labor: Effects on Baby and Mother A baby born anytime before 37 completed weeks of gestation is a premature baby, and the pregnancy is termed as a preterm birth. Before a preterm birth occurs, the mom will see signs of a preterm labor.
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Placental insufficiency Placental insufficiency can affect the fetus, causing Fetal distress. Placental insufficiency may cause oligohydramnios, preeclampsia, miscarriage or stillbirth. Placental insufficiency is most frequent cause of asymmetric IUGR.
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Maternal health Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. Maternal health. Let's talk about depression - Women with young babies. 7 April, World Health Day – Depression after childbirth is common. It causes mental anguish and can prevent people from being able to carry out family responsibilities fully. Yet depression can be prevented and treated.
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Precipitate delivery Danger of precipitate delivery. There are several misfortunes associated with precipitate delivery for both the mother and the infant. They are classified as maternal and neonatal. Maternal. Precipitate delivery may cause lacerations of the cervix, vagina, and/or perineum. Rapid descent and delivery of an infant does not allow maternal tissues adequate time to stretch and accommodate the passage of the infant.
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Effects of Premature Birth Linger Compared with adults who had been born at 37 weeks gestation or later, those who had a premature birth had a much higher risk of a range of medical and social problems. For example: The rate of cerebral palsy was 0.1% for those born at term vs. 9.1% among the earliest preemies born at 23 to 27 weeks. The prevalence of mental retardation was 0.4% among full-term infants compared with 4.4% among the most premature infants.
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Mother's stress harms foetus, research shows Mother's stress harms foetus, research shows. Mother's stress harms foetus, research shows. Stress experienced by a woman during pregnancy may affect her unborn baby as early as 17 weeks after conception, with potentially harmful effects on brain and development, according to new research.
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Maternal death Unsafe abortion is another major cause of maternal death. According to the World Health Organization, every eight minutes a woman dies from complications arising from unsafe abortions. Complications include hemorrhage, infection, sepsis and genital trauma.
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Maternal mortality The risk of maternal mortality is highest for adolescent girls under 15 years old and complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death among adolescent girls in developing countries.1, 2.
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Maternal to Fetal Infections Maternal to fetal infections are transmitted from the mother to her fetus, either across the placenta during fetal development (prenatal) or during labor and passage through the birth canal (perinatal).
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SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE Alcohol crosses the placenta to the baby during pregnancy. It can cause problems such as bleeding, miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth. Babies born to women who are heavily dependent on alcohol can suffer withdrawal symptoms after birth and may be born with fetal alcohol syndrome.
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS Finally, the relationship between maternal use of alcohol and other drugs and the risk and developmental consequences of preterm and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth is examined. This chapter ends with some general conclusions on the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol or other drugs.
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Nifedipine: Effects on fetal and maternal hemodynamics in pregnant sheep Maternal arterial pressure decreased and heart rate increased (p < 0.001) without variation of arterial blood gases. Significant plasma levels of nifedipine were detected in the fetal and maternal circulations. In view of the potential adverse effects on the fetus, further studies are needed before nifedipine is considered for use in human pregnancy. (am j 0bstet gynecol 1987;157:1 003-8.) Key words: Nifedipine, calcium blocker, fetus, pregnancy, cerebral blood flow Calcium entry blockers have been used effectively for· the treatment of coronary artery disease, systemic hy­pertension, and supraventricular arrhythmias.
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Illnesses & Infections in Pregnancy Most illnesses during pregnancy won't harm your baby, but some – such as rubella (German measles) and the more exotic mosquito-borne zika and dengue fever – can have serious consequences for your growing little one. And others can cause complications for you.
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- The effects on neural migration were the result of direct prolonged exposure of the fetal mouse brain to ultrasound waves. Ultrasound examinations in pregnant women with abdominal pain are targeted to the evaluation of the mother's abdomen and not to the fetus.
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NICHD Research Seeks Clues into the Causes of Alcohol- and Drug-Related Birth Defects They examined the effects of prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and alcohol. In the study, the researchers examined 1,355 cases, which included live-born infants, still-born fetuses (fetal death at greater than 20 weeks gestation), and electively terminated fetuses, with birth defects. Control cases included 700 live-born infants with no birth defects or other abnormalities.
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Overview If a pregnant woman contracts rubella, especially during her first trimester, the virus can cause death or serious birth defects in her developing fetus. Rubella during pregnancy is the most common cause of congenital deafness.
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Call to tackle maternal blood infection risk Sepsis is the leading cause of maternal death in the UK, with a rate of 1.13 per 100,000 maternities between 2006 and 2008. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors, the sources of infection and type of organisms responsible, in order to improve prevention and management strategies.Pregnant women and new mothers need closer attention for signs of potentially fatal sepsis, a study says,” reports BBC News. While still rare, sepsis – a blood infection – is now the leading cause of maternal death in the UK.
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A REVIEW OF PREGNANCY OUTCOME FOLLOWING The first trimester of pregnancy is the period of fetal organ development. It is within these three months that the fetus is at greatest risk of the teratogenic effects of drugs. Antidepressant agents represent a class of drugs in which concern has been raised over use in pregnancy.
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Advanced Maternal Age And Healthy Pregnancy Advanced maternal age is often linked to high blood pressure and diabetes that can affect pregnancy. For example, if diabetes is not controlled, it can contribute to birth defects, miscarriage, while high blood pressure can affect fetal growth by slowing it down.
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Stress and pregnancy (prenatal and perinatal) 1 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2002;41(9):1078-85.  Yehuda R, Engel SM, Brand SR, Seckl J, Marcus SM, Berkowitz GS. Transgenerational effects of posttraumatic stress disorder in babies of mothers exposed to the World Trade Center attacks during pregnancy.
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Maternal health Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. While motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience, for too many women it is associated with suffering, ill-health and even death. The major direct causes of maternal morbidity and mortality include haemorrhage, infection, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion, and obstructed labour.
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Maternal to Fetal Infections Chickenpox; a disease caused by the Varicella zoster virus—human herpes virus 3—that can cause severe birth defects if transmitted to the fetus during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and newborn complications if it is transmitted perinatally.
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Developmental Timeline of Alcohol-Induced Birth Defects Maternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) during pregnancy can result in a continuum of embryonic developmental abnormalities that vary depending on the severity, duration, and frequency of exposure of ethanol during gestation. Alcohol is a teratogen, an environmental agent that impacts the normal development of an embryo or fetus. In addition to dose-related concerns, factors such as maternal genetics and metabolism and the timing of alcohol exposure during prenatal development also impact alcohol-related birth defects.